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Governance

IT Governance is a subset discipline of Corporate governance focused on information technology systems and their performance and risk management. The rising interest in IT governance is partly due to compliance initiatives, as well as the acknowledgment that IT projects can easily get out of control and profoundly affect the performance of an organization.

Sanjay Poonen lends his insights on the market drivers for this BI revolution, and explains what it all means for SAP customers. The article also features SAP ecosystem partners highlighting how SAP customers can unleash the power of information to truly innovate their business.

This white paper highlights how BT's experience of IQIP can help to inform the challenge of organizing for enterprise wide DQ, lists the key organizational structures, outlines the roles of the potential main protagonists and summarizes the main lessons learned.

The list of initiatives that are data-enabled-indeed, data-intensive-vary from company to company, from industry to industry. But the common denominator is an increasing awareness that these and other programs can't succeed without clean, meaningful, and available information. In this white paper, Baseline Consulting's Jill Dyché discusses how the data conversation is changing from philosophical questioning to hard-core tactics, from "What do we need?" to "Where do we start?" It covers the most common reasons for data governance failure, as well as the components of data governance that will inform the right strategy and give companies a means of determining where and how to begin their data governance journeys.

The paper discusses the agility enabled by virtualization, the resulting control challenges, and a way to meet those challenges. It describes seven major requirements for success and reviews how the BMC/VMware approach helps IT ensure control over the virtualized data center and maintain compliance with corporate policies and government regulations.

This paper explains SAP’s vision for a cross-enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution and the benefits it can provide, defines key terms, and discusses what to look for when evaluating GRC software options.

Challenges like competitive pressures, compliance activities and higher operational costs make service management more critical than ever. To keep up, IT operations must constantly improve visibility, control and automation while bridging the gaps among business, development and daily operations.

Most large enterprises have launched an initiative to adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA), but SOA is not a solution that comes in a tidy little box. SOA is a new way to design systems, and it is more about culture than it is about technology. SOA will impact many aspects of an organization—from software development and operations to accounting and incentive systems. Governance is critical.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that offers business agility, speed to market, improved profitability and reduced costs. An SOA is also widely recognized as an enabler of innovation and new business operating models.

For service-oriented architecture (SOA) to succeed, it needs to begin before run-time, with a strong SOA-based development and delivery environment. This paper discusses some of the challenges around SOA governance in the context of a lifecycle of services, and introduces IBM Rational Asset Manager software as a solution to those challenges.

Implementing an SOA includes implementing a governance model that supports SOA. In fact, without a robust SOA governance model, an SOA implementation will not realize the benefits that the architecture has to offer. Without effective governance, an SOA project — no matter how big or small — will fail.

User access-related business risk comprises a broad array of potentially damaging events that may be caused or made possible by inadequate governance of access to an enterprise’s information assets. Such events range from relatively minor policy and compliance violations to disastrous business losses. The stakes involved in access-related risk have risen dramatically in recent years as organizations have become thoroughly operationalized by technology.

This report provided by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is developed around research that's focused on showing the many faces of the CMDB – as a central point for governance, asset, inventory, change and configuration control, and as a core system, in many cases for more effective service assurance. Designated for IT adopters and planners – read by executives, as well as, architects, and technical influencers.

Although roles-based access control (RBAC) has been the subject of much interest in the past, experience with it has been mostly disappointing. The challenge of discovering established roles, defining new roles according to business need, connecting roles properly to the IT infrastructure, ensuring that they meet all compliance requirements, and managing roles through their natural lifecycles has, until now, proved to be too complicated and cumbersome to be practical.

Read how demand planning software packages can help manufacturers to establish baseline sales forecasts, incorporating multiple inputs; perform sophisticated analysis that improves their use of human and capital resources; and better understand their markets and customers.

For most organizations email compliance management is synonymous with outbound email control. This white paper describes how internal email control is crucial to an organization's compliance mandate and the underlying technical architecture required to do it effectively.

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